I intend to test the matter of informing the police under Schedule 7.12.3b which states that a pilot shall not fly from a non-designated port to the IOM, CIs, Eire or NI unless......he gives at least 12 hours notice in writing to a constable for the police area in which the port is situated .....by handing written notice to the local plod not SB, next time a have a flight that qualifies. I'll post the result of that encounter here!
Good work by all.
Be very careful that local plod doesn't later deny getting the notification. If local plod is a friend, then perhaps he could be in trouble himself for not following some internal police rule. I'm guessing that internally they would have some sort of proceedure for forwarding this info to SB, and if you friend didn't do this he could perhaps be in trouble?
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